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A. GODEFROID COIN ASSORTING APPARATUS Filed June 28, 1928 3 Sheets-Sheet 1 UNVENTOR:

Jan. 19, 1932. A. caoln'Er--Rcmny com AssoRTxNG APPARATUS Filei June 28, 1928 s Smets-sheet 2 UNVENTGR' Jan. 19, 1932.I

COIN ASSORTING APPARATUSA Filed Jupe 28. 1928 s -sheets-sheet' 5 .7A/VEN Ton:

A. GoDEr-'Rom 1,842,019

Patented Jan. 19, 1932 PATENT @FI-'ICE enum eonnrnoin, or enum,

COIN-ASSOBTING PYARATUB Applicationled June 28, 1928, Serial No. 588,8L7 and in Germany December 30 19%.

This invention relates to a device for assorting mixed coins and its object is to produce a compact apparatus the essential parts of which are of simple construction and reliable and speedy in o eration, and the invention consists in the rst place in arranging a plurality of sorting channels in a longitudinal position relative to the drawer or other coin receptacle and in a plurality of tiers so as to maintainthe surface extent and height of the apparatus within small limits and expedite the sorting operation.

ln order to distribute the coins among the difl'erent sorting channels, a hopper is provided which has several compartments and which is capable of turning the. coins from a horizontal into a Vertical position before they are delivered into the channels.

For the distribution oi coins between the channels of the saine tier, the upper channel or channels are formed with com supports which are narrower than the thinnest coin so as to prevent two coins from running abreast alon the same channel. By this arrangement t e additional advantage is obtained that the rictional resistance oiered to the coins will be reduced so that the coins v will pass through the sorting device at a greater speed. i

lin the accompanying drawings the invention is illustrated in conjunction with a cash relster.

ig. l representing a longitudinal section el the register,

Fig. 2 a vertical section of the same taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. l,

Fig. 3 a side view of the sorting channels, Fi l a top view of the same in section on the line 4--4 of Fig. 3, and

Fig. 5 a cross-section on the line 5 5 of li .3. he cash register is provided with a cash tray l which is mounted on pivots 2 between the side walls 3 of the register and is 4adapted to he tilted about the pivots l:tor discharging the received coins on to an endless apron 4 supported on rollers 5 and 6.- The apron is covered by a lass plate 7 which allows the amount to be c ecked on the apron incase of dispute. The apron delivers the mixed coins into a hopper a; which is divided, transversel of the apron, into several compartments I'ormed of curved plates 9 and 10. he plates of adjacent compartments converge so as to form a roof over which the coins are sepa- 65 rated and righted, and a gutter l2 is produced between each pair of adjacent roofs whereinthe coins are received in an upright position. Wires 11, strung centrally across the hopper compartments, assist in distributw ing the coins over the dierent compartments..

The coins are delivered by the hopper into sorting channels b which are situated under the apron 4 and arranged in tiers or two or. 65

more channels, there being one tier fory each gutter 12. The channels are inclined in the direction of their length and also sideways so as to cause the coins to bear against and to he guided byvone side only of each particu-v 70 lar channel. lin the present instance, where there are two channels in each row, there is a bar 15 which forms the top support for the coins in the upper channel. Anotherv bar 16 forms the bottom support b1 of the 75 upper channel and at the same time the top support of the lower channel. The bottom support b of the lower channel is formed with a plate 17 which may be integral with a plate l4-which covers, entirely or partly, 3.0

the odsides of hothchannels.

The bottom support b1 of the upper channel is composed of a list i3 formed on the bar 16. This list, which is hush with 'the gutter 12 is narrower than the thinnest coin 85 so that, if two coins should be received together by the gutter, only one of them will be retained on the list, the other being dropped into the lower channel. Those portions 15 and 16' of the bars 15- and 16 against which 90 fall out of the c annals sooner or later accord- 95 ing to size. Cross-walls i9 extending from tier to tier at each change in the discharge aperture, keepthe assorted coins separate and Aguide them into chutes c whereby they are delivered into separate compartments 20 of a 100 have graded apertures for the discharge of\ drawer or other coin receptacle arranged, like the channels, in the longitudinal direction of the apparatus so as to reduce the surface extent of the latter.

The surfaces of the bars 15 and 16 against which the coins of the underlying channels rest, are beveled off as shown at :v in Fig. 5 so as to support the coins at the extreme top edge only. By this arrangement and by the provision of the narrow supporting list 13, the frictional resistance Oered to the coins will be very low, and the coins will travel correspondingly fast down the channels. The inclination ot' the latter can therefore be moderate, and the outer portions o the channels can, as shown in Fig. 1, be horizontal or even upwardly inclined so as to reduce the height of the apparatus.

in order to brake the velocity of the coins at the moment of delivery and prevent overthrow, the top supports may be straightened out as shown at y in Fig. 5 at the delivery points so as to contact with the greater portion of the coins.

By arranging the sorting channels in a plurality of tiers as described, a rapid action of the apparatus is ensured.

The device hereinbefore described may be combined with any type of cash register.

Iclaim:I v l 1. In an apparatus for sorting coins where# in a plurality of sorting channels are carried in tiers above distributing hoppers and coin receptacles and wherein the said sorting channels are inclined towards one side and coins; the improvement which comprises a coin sorting channel having the upper bearmg surface for said coins beveled so as t0 contact only with the top edge of said coins, whereby the friction of said coins against the side of said sorting channel is reduced.

2. A coin sorting apparatus havin the structure of claim 1 wherein the beveled earing surface for said coins is formed on a bar the upper edge of which forms a bottom support for coins passing through an uppersorting channel.

ARMAND GDEFROID. 

